At a time where computer technology is putting human lives and work under pressure, we
discuss how to provide alternatives. We look back at Participatory Design (PD) which was …

In Design for Services, Anna Meroni and Daniela Sangiorgi articulate what Design is doing
and can do for services, and how this connects to existing fields of knowledge and practice …

Usability testing is an essential skill for usability practitioners—professionals whose primary
goal is to provide guidance to product developers for the purpose of improving the ease of …

In this Introduction to the Special Issue on Re-Imagining Participatory Design, we wish to
provide a context for the following papers by elucidating some of the themes that have …

Participatory Design, User-Centered Design, People Centered Design, User-oriented
Design, Human-Centered Design, Contextual Design, Co-design, Cooperative Design …

Speech-based intelligent personal assistants (sIPAs) promise to improve quality of life in
older adults, but they pose various usability barriers that limit their adoption by older adults …

Studies and design of information technology support for workplaces, especially workshop
floors, office floors and hospital floors, have a strong tradition in Scandinavia, involving …

ICT, information and communications technology, has radically transformed our world and is
now an inextricable part of what it means to live a normal life as a citizen, at least in high …

This paper presents a field study exploring the challenges and implications of applying a
participatory design process through the use of generative design tools with children using …

In its traditional stance, participatory design (PD) is centred on certain work/application
settings and is concerned with the involvement of representative users from these contexts …